(1/2) Regarding your ask about “sherlock deducing himself”: oh god I’ve got a BS in Psychology and Criminology, and now that you mention it, I could say so much on that parallelism between Sherlock and the bullet-hole-ridden smiley face… first with the incident of Sherlock actually shooting the smiley face while bored, and then again in that scene in TRF showing them both in the mirror…

iwantthatcoat:

deducingbbcsherlock-deactivated:

(2/2) Basically, equate that smiley face to a punching bag with a cutout of Sherlock’s face on it, and when Sherlock got bored, when his mind rebelled at stagnation, he took to punching that bag (shooting the wall). The deliberate mirroring of the smiley face and Sherlock’s actual face is pretty indicative of them being linked. That’s an entire psychoanalysis just asking to be written.

Ho.Ly.Shite. 

First, can we talk about this? The smiley and the skull, good versus bad. Visually, it reminds me a whole lot of Sherlock’s final problem. Which man will he choose to be? 

He starts out TGG shooting the “right” version in the face. 

Why? BORED! 

Show off. Of course, that’s because John’s just walked in.

(And keeps him right.)

A nice “face to face” moment follows…

John sits in Sherlock’s chair rather than his own, mirroring the smiley himself.

Nice angle here, with the smiley directly over Sherlock as he points to his head.

Also this.

And this. 

And finally, in TRF:

Yeah, please please please please someone write a psychoanalysis on this, for real. Fuck.

Holy crap what a new take on him being self destructive. I can’t believe that soars over my head. The overly broad grin at the face in that long shot is…well..kinda painful.
I seem to remember that at the Christmas party at 221b the skull is decorated in red lights..so would that mean that side is “winning”?